More than 180,000 iPhone apps won't be compatible with iOS 11 (AAPL)

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September 19, 2017 4:36 PM

When iOS 11 arrives in a few of weeks, a big change to the App Store will come along with it.

With the release of iOS 11 on Tuesday, a long-predicted change will arrive with it: Apple will no longer support 32-bit apps.

The change has been rumored for awhile now, ever since Apple introduced a 64-bit processor with the iPhone 5S in 2013 and started giving gentle warnings that developers should update their apps.

But as far back as January of this year, users started getting a message warning them that the 32-bit apps on their phone wouldn't work at all when iOS 11 became available. By June, Gizmodo noticed that some 32-bit apps had already disappeared from the App Store, but were still available to download if you had the direct link.

The iPhone 5s has been around for nearly three years, and most well-known apps are compatible with 64-bit processors. So what does this change actually mean?

Well, it turns out that Apple may stop supporting nearly 200,000 apps.

According to

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